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Obama Pick Confirmed As Trade Representative

2013-06-19T20:20:46Z

WASHINGTON -- Michael Froman, a senior White House economic adviser and classmate of President Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, on Wednesday won Se...

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Nation Remains Divided On Gun Control

2013-06-19T13:20:56Z

This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily repo...

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Mark Edwards: Time to Reauthorize the Federal Education Law

2013-06-18T15:56:49Z

At a time when little legislative action is taking place, Opportunity Nation is pleased to see progress on our Shared Planed in the version of the bill passed by the Senate, including several objectives in the Improving Secondary Schools Program.

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Alex Knepper: On Immigration, Rubio Draws His Line In the Sand: Queers

2013-06-17T11:24:21Z

Rubio is a younger, darker face for an old, tired agenda -- and anything but the revolutionary figure that the party needs to attract young and minority voters.

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Rubio: Immigration Bill Almost Ready

2013-06-16T12:53:01Z

WASHINGTON, June 16 (Reuters) - Republican Senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday he still supports a bill to overhaul the U.S. immigration, but reitera...

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Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- War On Women Continues Apace

2013-06-14T20:22:00Z

This week's announcement that the Justice Department is going to drop its appeal against providing the morning-after birth control pill to anyone who needs it comes as such a welcome change that we feel the award is deserved.

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Bob Greenstein: Immigration Bill's 'Back Taxes' Amendment Much Harder to Implement Than Senator Hatch Suggests

2013-06-14T15:32:03Z

As our new report explains, some senators are proposing amendments to the immigration bill that would make its long and difficult path to citizenship far more difficult -- in some cases undermining the fundamental goal of enabling undocumented workers to legalize their status.

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Heather Taylor-Miesle: What America Can Learn from New Mexico

2013-06-13T12:23:58Z

Today U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) stood on the floor of the Senate and delivered his first speech as the newly elected Senator from Ne...

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Chris Weigant: Pentagon Should Get Only One Year To Fix Sexual Assault Problem

2013-06-12T19:29:54Z

The claim from every head of the armed services that the military can solve this problem and leave intact the chain of command issues is about to be tested. Issue your orders to your subordinates. Let it be known that the "look the other way" and "boys will be boys" culture is over.

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This Is Finally Happening For The Women Of The Senate

2013-06-12T11:18:06Z

The 20 women in the U.S. Senate are finally getting a larger ladies' room.

Back in November, Senator Amy Klochubar (D-Minn.) reported that "traffi...

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Everything You Need To Know About Senate Immigration Bill

2013-06-12T09:38:01Z

-- A look at the immigration overhaul bill now before the Senate:

___ BORDER SECURITY

_The bill makes it a goal that there be 100 percent surveilla...

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Stephanie Schriock: The GOP Says What It Means

2013-06-11T18:07:53Z

Republicans have done a lot of soul searching to try and figure out why women voters opposed them at historic levels during the 2012 election. They've questioned their message, and their messengers. But they haven't reflected on their anti-woman policies.

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Saket Soni: Will Corporations Win More Exploitable Workers?

2013-06-11T17:12:54Z

If the business lobby has its way, immigration reform will bring one group of immigrant workers out of the shadows while trapping another in exploitation.

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Mark R. Kennedy: Can Lightning Strike Twice in Massachusetts?

2013-06-11T14:04:48Z

Can lightning strike twice in one place? Not according to folklore, but when did Massachusetts ever comply with convention? When it comes to special elections in the Bay State, anything is possible.

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Hal Donahue: Immigration, Republicans and Nuns on the Bus

2013-06-11T12:11:23Z

Just like most veterans, the sisters preach equality, progress and accomplishing the mission. Unlike so many religious extremists, the sisters' god neither threatened nor damned any group. Immigration was a challenge to be faced and solved as equitably as possible.

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Mark R. Kennedy: Macro Must Trump Micro for Republicans on Immigration

2013-06-11T09:48:24Z

For the hopes of those who embrace the macro view to come true, Republicans will need to win a string of tactical battles on the path to a balanced comprehensive bill. To achieve these victories, Republicans must focus on what kind of comprehensive bill they want, not whether they want a comprehensive bill.

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Tavis Smiley: Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Student Loans

2013-06-10T21:56:00Z

During my exclusive broadcast conversation with Sen. Elizabeth Warren tonight on PBS, she states, "We can't be a country that invests in big banks and won't invest in our students who want an education. Let's not call it postmortem just yet; let's call it we're still in the middle of the fight."

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Tavis Smiley: My Exclusive Conversation With Sen. Elizabeth Warren

2013-06-10T20:50:20Z

In an exclusive conversation airing tonight on PBS, Sen. Elizabeth Warren sounds off on the abuse of the filibuster in the U.S. Senate.

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Ilana Solomon: Mr. Froman: Let's Make the U.S. Trade Agenda Truly Fair

2013-06-10T18:04:27Z

What, to Mr. Froman, constitutes a "bad agreement?" And what, to Mr. Froman, is "fair" trade?

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George Kenney: Considerations on Abolishing the Senate

2013-06-10T11:18:18Z

Just as yesterday's reformers got sidetracked by the question of direct elections, today's headlines, like the filibuster, are red herrings. The source of the Senate's disease is, and has always been, its unrepresentative, anti-democratic structure.

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Ian Reifowitz: Time to Go Nuclear on the Filibuster

2013-06-10T10:17:33Z

It does not matter that Obama has been elected and reelected president. Republicans have made a decision that they will use the filibuster, the hold, and other tactics to ensure that he is simply unable to place people into the judiciary and various executive-branch positions.

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Paul Abrams: Scalia Signals He Will Decide Voting Rights Case Under German Jurisprudence

2013-06-09T18:09:15Z

In cases involving an act of Congress, such as the Voting Rights Act, the Court pays great deference to findings of facts by Congress. Congress is, after all, the peoples' elected representatives; and, it can be changed.

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Patricia McGuire: Moral Bankruptcy on Student Loans

2013-06-09T14:57:44Z

Congress should be ashamed of itself for imposing more barriers to college access and completion because of its perverse inability to make any good decisions these days.

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Hey, Watch This Seat For Me, Willya? The Long History Of The Shortest Congressional Tenures

2013-06-08T09:15:22Z

With the death of longtime New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D), Republican Gov. Chris Christie has named someone to temporarily fill the seat until N...

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William B. Bradshaw: Student Loans: the Problem and Solutions

2013-06-07T21:36:45Z

I'll start with the severity of the problem and then turn to solutions.

Defaults on student loans are looming as the next big financial crises facing...

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